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Fitch Ratings has downgraded the outlook on China's sovereign credit rating from stable to negative.

General Motors Co (GM.N) said on Thursday that Fitch Ratings had raised the credit ratings of both GM and GM Financial to investment grade.

Months after Sony Corp bought So-net, the broadband provider's chief chided CEO Kazuo Hirai for having his "priorities in the wrong order".

Fitch Ratings cut its rating on Russia to 'BBB minus' from 'BBB', citing significant deterioration in the country's economic outlook due to the slump in oil prices and falling value of the rouble.

Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, aims to buy his way into the global aircraft leasing business as his flagship investment firm holds talks with lessors on building a portfolio of planes, people with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Despite significant increases in its use as a payment system and attention in the marketplace, Bitcoin is small relative to both traditional payment processors and global currencies, according to a Fitch Ratings Why Forum commentary published today.

Global ratings agency Fitch ratings was confident that the US government would be able to fulfill its debt payments even if no agreement would be passed after October 17.

Fitch is allowing itself until the first quarter of 2014 to determine if US credit rating needs to be downgraded.

Fitch affirmed Bahrain's credit ratings.

Fitch gave a 'BBB-(EXP)' rating to Indonesia's USD-denominated global bonds.

Fitch ratings for the transport infrastructure sector was mostly Stable Outlook.

Fitch ratings warns Vodafone of the effect should the British firm purchase Kabel Deutschland.